The Ben Shapiro Show - King Of The Jews? | Ep. 844

00:00:00.000 President Trump decides to jump on all of the rakes simultaneously, California continues to collapse, and big business undercuts its own case.

00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:08.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:09.000 Well, you got to love that feeling when you set up an entire podcast and you've got the entire schedule laid out for you.

00:00:19.000 And then President Trump just blows it up because it's a day ending in Y.

00:00:23.000 Well, today, President Trump decided it was time to jump into the middle of another controversy.

00:00:27.000 So, we had seen several weeks of controversy.

00:00:30.000 Several months of controversy, really, over Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and the entire anti-Semitic contingent in the Democratic Party and in the broader media defending Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar over their anti-Semitism.

00:00:42.000 We got to see Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib pledging to take a trip to Israel, which they called Palestine, with a group so anti-Semitic it once pushed the blood libel.

00:00:50.000 We got to see the entire media full of firefighters, intrepid, strong firefighters, Completely ignore that story and instead say that Israel is super, super, super bad for not allowing in people who explicitly say they are joined with a group that wants to destroy the state of Israel.

00:01:05.000 And we got to see the spectacle of members of the media defending Omar and Tlaib from the cruel predations of people who disagreed with them because they were the real victims here.

00:01:15.000 They were the real victims here.

00:01:17.000 Our intrepid journalistic firefighters really doing incredible work.

00:01:21.000 So, that was the narrative.

00:01:24.000 All President Trump had to do was point out that the media were not doing their jobs.

00:01:27.000 All he had to do was point out that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are what they are, which is people who do not like Jews.

00:01:32.000 That's all he had to do.

00:01:33.000 But President Trump, he's not a man who is going to stick to the script.

00:01:37.000 He's not a person who is going to stick to the winning strategy.

00:01:41.000 No!

00:01:41.000 President Trump is going to find all of the rakes and jump on them simultaneously like Scishow Bob in an episode of The Simpsons.

00:01:48.000 And so President Trump decided yesterday that it'd be brilliant to comment on Omar and Tlaib.

00:01:54.000 And he started off in a place that is not terrible, and then he went to a place that is quite not good.

00:01:58.000 Here is the President of the United States jumping on all of the rakes, and then falling over into a minefield, and then falling into the rotors of a helicopter.

00:02:07.000 Where has the Democratic Party gone?

00:02:09.000 Where have they gone where they're defending these two people over the state of Israel?

00:02:16.000 And I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. 0.96

00:02:25.000 Okay, great disloyalty is the problem with this statement.

00:02:28.000 Great disloyalty.

00:02:29.000 If he wants to say that Jews who are voting for a party that defend Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are showing a lack of knowledge, That, it may be impolitic, but that's a fair statement. 1.00

00:02:39.000 If he wants to say that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are radically anti-Israel, that's a fair statement. 1.00

00:02:43.000 Once you get into charges of disloyalty, you are getting into very ugly territory.

00:02:46.000 Now, let's be honest about this.

00:02:49.000 President Trump is not clear on what exactly he is saying here.

00:02:51.000 He's not, because he doesn't make clear what he is saying about disloyalty.

00:02:54.000 Who are these American Jews disloyal to? 0.52

00:02:57.000 Are they disloyal to other Jews?

00:02:59.000 Are they disloyal to the state of Israel?

00:03:01.000 Which would be a dual loyalty charge, which would be anti-Semitic, saying they should be loyal to Israel instead of to their priorities in the United States.

00:03:07.000 Is he saying they're disloyal to Judaism?

00:03:09.000 It sort of depends what he is talking about there.

00:03:12.000 To determine whether he is actually engaging in an anti-Semitic trope.

00:03:16.000 Are they being disloyal to Trump?

00:03:17.000 Do they owe Trump their loyalty because Trump is pro-Israel?

00:03:20.000 Which goes back to the dual loyalty smear that so many Democrats have engaged in over the years.

00:03:26.000 So the non-clarity of what he's saying is a problem.

00:03:29.000 And I think we do have to break this down because there is a way to read the statement that is not anti-Semitic.

00:03:35.000 And then there are ways to read the statement that are anti-Semitic or at least engage in anti-Semitic tropes.

00:03:40.000 So, gotta break this down in a little bit of detail here, so stick with me.

00:03:43.000 I know, we've had a lot of Jew talk lately.

00:03:45.000 That's not my fault, okay?

00:03:47.000 That is just because there are a lot of anti-Semites out there lately, and then the president decided to make this the top issue of the day.

00:03:53.000 So, let's begin with a simple fact.

00:03:55.000 When people reference Jews very often, they're not clear about what they're talking.

00:03:59.000 So, are they referencing ethnic Jews, like people who are born into a Jewish family?

00:04:02.000 Or are they talking about people who are Jews by religion?

00:04:05.000 So this is not quite the same thing.

00:04:06.000 So there are many Jews who are ethnic Jews who are not Jewish by religion.

00:04:09.000 In fact, the majority of Jews in the United States are irreligious.

00:04:12.000 Only 40% of Jews in the United States, ethnic Jews, believe in God or really have a connection with Judaism in any sort of way.

00:04:19.000 So when people say, why do Jews vote Democrat?

00:04:21.000 My usual answer is because most Jews aren't particularly Jewish.

00:04:24.000 Most Jews don't actually practice Judaism.

00:04:26.000 Just because you have a name ending in Steenbaum or Goldberg does not mean that you are actively practicing Judaism in any real way.

00:04:33.000 Okay, so you have to distinguish between the practice of Judaism, the philosophy of Judaism, and I am a philosophic Jew, right?

00:04:40.000 I wear a yarmulke, I'm a religious Jew.

00:04:42.000 You can read all about my religious beliefs and my philosophic beliefs in my book, The Right Side of History, which is very ensconced in a lot of biblical thinking.

00:04:50.000 There's religious and philosophical Judaism.

00:04:52.000 And then there is ethnic Judaism, which is Noam Chomsky is an ethnic Jew. 0.85

00:04:56.000 Bernie Sanders is an ethnic Jew. 0.93

00:04:57.000 Now, to me, ethnic Judaism doesn't matter because I don't really care about it. 0.96

00:05:00.000 I don't care about tribalism.

00:05:02.000 And thus, I don't care about what you were born into.

00:05:05.000 I care about what you think.

00:05:06.000 I don't care about your genetic status.

00:05:08.000 I care about what you think.

00:05:09.000 And this holds true whether you are black, white, green, or Jewish. 0.86

00:05:11.000 It does not matter to me.

00:05:12.000 Okay, so we have to make that distinction because that's actually an important distinction for what we're about to discuss going forward.

00:05:18.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:05:21.000 I'll continue the explanation.

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00:06:26.000 OK, so as I say.

00:06:27.000 When people reference Jews, they have to be clear about what they're talking. 0.89

00:06:30.000 When they say Jews, do they mean ethnic Jews, like people who are born Jewish, or people who practice Judaism in some real way?

00:06:36.000 And that makes a difference when you're discussing how people vote, because obviously, if you're talking about the first brand of Judaism, if you're talking about people who are just born ethnic Jews, then to suggest that all those people must have loyalties in a particular direction, That is that is just anti-semitism because just because you're born into a particular tribe or into a particular family doesn't mean you have to believe anything.

00:06:56.000 That is no better and no worse than Ayanna Pressley, the congresswoman who's a member of the squad, saying just a few weeks ago, we don't need any more brown faces that don't want to be a brown voice.

00:07:07.000 That was her using tribal loyalty. 0.90

00:07:09.000 As some sort of litmus test, and that is racist and it's anti-semitic to say all Jews have to think the same way, and by Jews I mean everybody who was born Jewish and is ethnically Jewish. 0.98

00:07:17.000 That's very silly. 0.94

00:07:18.000 Just because you were born one way doesn't mean that's how you have to think. 0.95

00:07:22.000 Right, so that is take number one.

00:07:23.000 Remember, Ayanna Pressley did say this.

00:07:24.000 The media didn't care about it at the time, but she did say precisely the same thing that people suppose Trump said about Jews, except about brown people and black people.

00:07:32.000 If you're not prepared to come to that table and to represent that voice, don't come. 0.97

00:07:38.000 Because we don't need any more brown faces that don't want to be a brown voice. 1.00

00:07:44.000 We don't need black faces that don't want to be a black voice. 1.00

00:07:48.000 We don't need Muslims that don't want to be a Muslim voice. 0.99

00:07:50.000 We don't need queers that don't want to be a queer voice. 1.00

00:07:53.000 And if you're worried about being marginalized and stereotyped, please don't even show up.

00:07:58.000 Okay, you remember that she, remember, she said this, no one cared.

00:08:01.000 She's also, in this particular quote, Ayanna Pressley, I'm not just diverting to Ayanna Pressley here, I'm not.

00:08:07.000 I think it's actually important that she lumped in brown faces, brown voices, and black voices, and black faces, and Muslim faces.

00:08:14.000 I think it is actually fair to say that certain philosophies are mirrored in politics.

00:08:19.000 So, for example, if I say, I don't understand why a practicing Catholic would vote Democrat.

00:08:23.000 Democrats are pro-abortion.

00:08:24.000 I don't understand why a practicing Catholic would vote Democrat.

00:08:26.000 There's nothing anti-Catholic about that.

00:08:28.000 If I said everyone who was born into a Catholic family must vote Republican, that would be very weird.

00:08:33.000 That'd be a weird thing to say.

00:08:35.000 Right, to say that if you're Muslim that that takes into account certain ideological preferences because Islam is a religion meaning that it is a philosophy that has embedded in it certain ideas and therefore you should reflect those ideas in your public life if you proclaim yourself a Muslim voice.

00:08:49.000 I don't see anything particularly wrong with that.

00:08:51.000 I don't see anything particularly wrong with saying the same about Judaism.

00:08:54.000 This is why I've said for a long time that when you see groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, that they are Jews in name only, meaning that they are ethnic Jews, but they are not actually representing any sort of philosophic Judaism in any real way, and in fact, they are using Judaism as a club to wield against Jews, very often.

00:09:10.000 Okay, so, as I say, couple points.

00:09:13.000 Difference between ethnic Jews and religious Jews, and two, people who are born Jewish don't have to have political loyalties in any direction, and to suggest that they do is anti-Semitic.

00:09:21.000 You're now grouping all Jews by dint of birth, as in a certain ideological or philosophical group, and that, of course, is untrue.

00:09:28.000 Three, American Jews, whether they are ethnic or religious, are loyal to America, not Israel. 0.74

00:09:33.000 So if the implication of President Trump saying that you are disloyal if you don't vote for Trump because you're actually loyal to Israel, okay, that is a pure dual loyalty smear, and that is anti-Semitic.

00:09:44.000 Okay, fourth is what Trump could be saying that would not be anti-Semitic.

00:09:48.000 Okay, Jewish belief and practice should, in fact, make it very difficult to vote for a party that celebrates and champions Jew haters like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.

00:09:56.000 Undoubtedly, yes, it should be much harder for people who care deeply about religious and philosophic Judaism to vote for a party that makes common cause with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, just as it would not be ridiculous to say that it's very difficult to suggest that Jewish belief and practice would allow you to vote Labour in Britain.

00:10:13.000 A party that has steadily moved away from Israel, which is connected to Jewish belief and practice.

00:10:19.000 A party that has not only undercut Israel, but undercut religious liberty in the United States, that has favored specific groups.

00:10:26.000 If those groups are, even if they're targeting Jews, like Omar and Talibar, the intersectional coalition that is throwing Jews outside the circle of victimhood for their own political purposes, There is nothing wrong with saying that philosophic and religious Judaism makes it very difficult to vote for the party that does all of those things. 0.67

00:10:44.000 And just as it's not wrong to say that Muslims should take into account how Muslims believe when they vote, or Christians should take into account how Christians believe when they vote.

00:10:52.000 There's nothing anti any of those groups about any of that.

00:10:55.000 That is just pure basic logic.

00:10:58.000 OK, to suggest again that that if you are a practicing Jew, that if you care about Judaism in any way, that you should take account of those values when you vote.

00:11:05.000 I don't really see a problem with that.

00:11:07.000 And here is where Trump's lack of clarity is particularly damning for him.

00:11:12.000 It's completely unclear if Trump's disloyalty comments suggest that all Jews must be loyal to Israel, which would be anti-Semitic, or that all Jews by dint of birth ought to believe a certain thing, which of course would be anti-Semitic as well, or that Jews who take Judaism seriously should vote for Donald Trump, which is an argument.

00:11:33.000 It may be an awkward argument for Trump to make.

00:11:36.000 It may be a self-aggrandizing argument, but at least it's an argument that is not anti-Semitic, right?

00:11:40.000 It's an argument that in many ways is kind of true. 0.99

00:11:44.000 Okay, well this brings us to this morning.

00:11:46.000 So this morning, President Trump decided, you know what?

00:11:48.000 Gonna double down, because that's what we always do here.

00:11:50.000 Instead of explaining that what he means is that Jews who take Judaism seriously ought to, of course, favor his administration because he's been incredibly pro-Israel, because he's been incredibly pro-Jewish, because this president has been a great friend to the American Jewish community in a lot of ways, all of which is true. 0.96

00:12:07.000 Instead, President Trump decided to go on Twitter and then unleash the single dumbest tweet thread I've seen from him in some time, and that is saying something. 0.74

00:12:16.000 So he tweeted out from Wayne Allen Roots, and Wayne Allen Roots is a radio host and commentator, and Wayne Allen Roots said some silly things today, and Trump decided to retweet them out into the world. 0.58

00:12:26.000 He said, Trump said, quote, Thank you to Wayne Allen Ruud for the very nice words.

00:12:30.000 Quote, and this is from Wayne Allen Ruud, President Trump is the greatest president for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America.

00:12:37.000 He is the best president for Israel in the history of the world.

00:12:39.000 I think, again, there's a case to be made for this.

00:12:40.000 This is the president who did move the U.S.

00:12:42.000 embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

00:12:44.000 This is the president who acknowledged Israel's right to the Golan Heights. 0.77

00:12:47.000 This is a president who has been overtly pro-Israel in all of his statements and all of his speech.

00:12:51.000 That part's not the wrong part.

00:12:52.000 Okay, and then Wayne Allyn Root continued, the Jewish people in Israel love him.

00:12:55.000 This is true by poll numbers.

00:12:57.000 And then we get to the weird part.

00:12:59.000 Trump, remember, this is Trump retweeting stuff about himself.

00:13:03.000 They love him like he's the king of Israel.

00:13:06.000 Like Trump is the king of Israel.

00:13:07.000 Ah, now you're getting awkward, dude.

00:13:10.000 Because you're not King David?

00:13:12.000 And if you mean like another King of Israel, the Jews are not famous for their worship for Jesus.

00:13:19.000 And as it turns out, Wayne Allen Root is talking about Jesus when he says King of Israel.

00:13:26.000 Now, I'm not a New Testament expert, but I do know some things about the Old Testament and about the Jews.

00:13:32.000 And suggesting, as Donald Trump is doing in this tweet, that he's like the second coming of Jesus and therefore the Jews love him.

00:13:39.000 He may have missed the whole point of the part where the Jews are not Christian.

00:13:43.000 He may have missed that whole part where the Jews were not big on the first coming.

00:13:51.000 Gettin' real awkward, dude. 0.91

00:13:52.000 Gettin' real awkward and crazy. 0.90

00:13:54.000 And then Trump says, American Jews don't know him or like him. 0.95

00:13:56.000 They don't even know what they're doing or saying anymore.

00:13:58.000 It makes no sense.

00:13:59.000 But that's okay if he keeps doing what he's doing.

00:14:01.000 He's good for all Jews, blacks, gays, everyone.

00:14:04.000 More importantly, he's good for everyone in America who wants a job.

00:14:07.000 Wow.

00:14:08.000 That's why Trump adds that wow at the end.

00:14:11.000 Okay, again.

00:14:12.000 If you are saying that American Jews should practice Judaism and therefore they should have different priorities, it's a call to religion from Trump that would be kind of strange, but not anti-Semitic.

00:14:25.000 It is very weird that the president is calling himself the king of the Jews and the second coming of God by dint of retweet.

00:14:31.000 That is that is bizarre.

00:14:33.000 OK, now, with all of that said, with all of this said, and again, I have opened wide the possibility that Trump was using anti-Semitic language here, right?

00:14:41.000 I mean, I've explicitly acknowledged two ways in which this could be interpreted that were anti-Semitic and one way in which it would not be. 0.92

00:14:47.000 And my inclination is that Trump is an ignoramus because that is all my, that's always my inclination.

00:14:52.000 I don't think Trump is a Jew hater in the way that Omar and Talib are, as evidenced by the fact he's not calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. 0.95

00:15:00.000 He's not suggesting that the only support for the state of Israel in America is due to Jewish money, that it's all about the Benjamins.

00:15:08.000 This president may engage in root stereotyping, and he does this on a regular basis with a variety of groups, and it's ugly, and it's wrong, but my inclination is that that's because the president is not up on the political jargon.

00:15:23.000 And this is not me letting him off the hook for any of this, but what do you think rings more true?

00:15:27.000 That Trump hates Jews in the way that Omar and Tlaib obviously do? 0.99

00:15:30.000 Or that President Trump is just an ignoramus who doesn't know how to use the English language? 0.99

00:15:34.000 Which seems to ring true in a variety of ways. 1.00

00:15:37.000 Because that's what he is.

00:15:39.000 That's what he is.

00:15:39.000 Now, in one second, we're going to get to the great irony of the media turning this into the story of the day.

00:15:44.000 We're going to get to the great irony of that, because there is a great irony in this.

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00:17:15.000 Okay, so.

00:17:16.000 The media have jumped all over Trump, over these comments.

00:17:20.000 And again, I think criticism of Trump over the comments is due.

00:17:23.000 I think that the comments are easily read in a way that is not the proper way to talk about religious or philosophic Judaism.

00:17:32.000 I myself have talked about bad Jews before. 1.00

00:17:35.000 And what I mean by bad Jews is Jews who invoke Judaism, as I mentioned, like J Street or Jewish Voice for Peace, cynically in an attempt to use Judaism as a substitute for progressive values that run directly counter to Judaism. 0.99

00:17:48.000 I don't mean Jews who don't practice Judaism. 0.64

00:17:50.000 There are lots of Jews who don't practice Judaism.

00:17:52.000 Many members of my family are Jews who don't particularly practice Judaism.

00:17:57.000 That is their choice.

00:17:58.000 Okay, what makes somebody a bad Jew, in my view, is somebody who is using the tenets of Judaism cynically and overtly in order to undermine a lot of Jewish tenets, which you do see this. 0.91

00:18:09.000 Okay, but that is a discussion within philosophic Judaism, that is not a discussion within ethnic Judaism.

00:18:14.000 Okay, with all of that said, it is unbelievable that the members of the media are jumping all over this.

00:18:19.000 Why?

00:18:20.000 Because the members of the media have spent the last several weeks blatantly ignoring Omar and Tlaib trying to tour Israel with a group that pushed the blood libel and pushed the idea that Jews drink Christian blood on Passover with a group that was quoting from neo-Nazi websites, the same media, those those real intrepid firefighters in our media were focused in like a laser beam.

00:18:47.000 On Donald Trump today, don't give a damn when it's anti-Semitism from the other side.

00:18:51.000 And I've been complaining about this for years at this point. 0.63

00:18:53.000 The New York Times has openly admitted that they have not been reporting on local anti-Semitic crime because it doesn't fall into the category of white supremacist crime.

00:19:00.000 In other words, they only care about anti-Semitism when it's time to use anti-Semitism as a charge against a Republican or against a conservative or against people who they can associate with Republicans or conservatives.

00:19:12.000 Right, when they can try and tie together white supremacists and Trump, then they're worried about anti-semitism.

00:19:17.000 But when it comes from Omar and Tlaib, then no, no, this is just the Jews. 0.99

00:19:20.000 Those crafty Jews, crafty Jews. 1.00

00:19:23.000 You know, they're always trying to infiltrate the media and push their, push their censorship, trying to silence people of color. 1.00

00:19:30.000 Pretty incredible.

00:19:32.000 Pretty incredible.

00:19:34.000 You're not fighting anti-Semitism unless you're calling it out on all sides.

00:19:37.000 You're not fighting anti-Semitism unless you are willing to call it out when you see it.

00:19:40.000 I've called it out when I see it from President Trump.

00:19:43.000 I've called it out when I see it from people on the right.

00:19:45.000 I've called it out when I see it from people on the left.

00:19:47.000 But I'm not going to take it under advisement.

00:19:50.000 When commentators for Al Jazeera, who spend their lives defending the anti-Semitism of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, are out there doing this routine.

00:19:58.000 Oh, woe is them! 1.00

00:20:00.000 Yes, I am sure that the same Democrats who are deeply defending Omar and Tlaib today, I'm sure that the same Democrats who refused to condemn Ilhan Omar's statements, refused to censor her, and instead passed a resolution against hate more broadly, I'm sure that they are very disturbed by anti-Semitism today, guys.

00:20:15.000 I am super certain that they are really disturbed by that sort of thing.

00:20:18.000 In fact, I am sure that Democrats are incredibly disturbed whenever anybody suggests that a group owes their loyalty to a politician.

00:20:26.000 If anybody, any politician would suggest that a group owes, a specific racial group owes their loyalty to a politician or owes their loyalty to a set of causes on the basis of race, I'm sure that the media would be just as upset.

00:20:40.000 Like, let's say, just for the sake of argument, Barack Obama back in 2016 did exactly... I'm sure everyone would have gone nuts, right?

00:20:48.000 Obama never would have done something like that.

00:20:50.000 Ever.

00:20:51.000 Yeah.

00:20:53.000 There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

00:20:57.000 It all matters.

00:20:59.000 And after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election. 0.99

00:21:16.000 You want to give me a good send-off?

00:21:18.000 Go vote!

00:21:21.000 It's an act of personal disloyalty.

00:21:23.000 An act of personal disloyalty.

00:21:25.000 Undermining Barack Obama's personal legacy if black voters don't show up to vote for Hillary Clinton.

00:21:30.000 Weird, it seems like he's accusing them of disloyalty if they don't do what he wants on the basis of their race.

00:21:34.000 Very strange.

00:21:35.000 I remember when the media went cr... Nope.

00:21:37.000 Not at all.

00:21:38.000 In other words, it seems as though two things can be true at once.

00:21:41.000 Trump can say a bad thing. 1.00

00:21:42.000 Trump can say an ignorant thing. 0.99

00:21:44.000 Trump can say a crazy thing about King of the Jews and second coming of God and all of this kind of stuff. 1.00

00:21:48.000 Trump can do all of that stuff and also the media can be sheer garbage and I don't trust them to call out anti-Semitism because they don't do it. 0.98

00:21:55.000 Because they don't do it. 0.95

00:21:56.000 I'm not going to listen to a bunch of people who have made excuses for anti-Semitism for years, so long as it comes from the right, so long as it comes from the correct side of the aisle, so long as it comes from the left, anti-Semitism is fine. 0.99

00:22:07.000 So long as it comes from a group that is higher on the intersectional pyramid of victimhood than the Jews, then anti-Semitism is totally cool and we'll ignore it.

00:22:15.000 Now they're up in arms because Donald Trump is dog whistling, don't you see?

00:22:18.000 Forget the bullhorns over here. 0.99

00:22:20.000 Forget Omar and Tlaib standing over here, shouting at the top of their voice that they hate Jews. 0.98

00:22:24.000 Forget that.

00:22:25.000 Forget the fact that they retweeted from Mondoweiss yesterday, an anti-Semitic website.

00:22:29.000 Forget the fact that in the last four days, they retweeted a cartoon from a guy who placed in a Iran Holocaust denial cartoon contest.

00:22:39.000 Forget all of that.

00:22:40.000 Right?

00:22:40.000 That doesn't matter.

00:22:41.000 The only thing that matters is that Trump, Trump said some bad stuff today.

00:22:45.000 Again, call out Trump by all means.

00:22:47.000 Do it!

00:22:48.000 Because this discourse is ugly and it's wrong.

00:22:51.000 Especially if he meant it in the way that he seems to have meant it, which is that all ethnic Jews have to vote a certain way because they were born into the Jewish community or something like that.

00:22:59.000 That is a wrong thing to say.

00:23:01.000 Or if he meant it like all Jews are more loyal to Israel than America and therefore that has to be their top priority. 0.63

00:23:08.000 Right, if he meant it that way.

00:23:09.000 If he meant it in the way that I have talked about it when I say that a lot of Jews don't care about Judaism, well then, I don't see anything wrong with that, frankly. 0.98

00:23:15.000 I've said it myself.

00:23:17.000 When I say that a lot of Jews don't care very much about Judaism, that is true by poll statistics. 1.00

00:23:22.000 It is true by absolute data.

00:23:24.000 And so I don't find it a mystery when a lot of Jews don't support the more pro-Israel party, or the more pro-religious freedom, or the more pro-life party.

00:23:32.000 I don't find that a big surprise, because that's been true in the Jewish community for years.

00:23:36.000 The Orthodox community in the United States votes somewhere around 70-30 Republican, and the rest of the Jewish community votes like 80-20 Democrat.

00:23:44.000 So that is not a shock in any way, shape, or form.

00:23:47.000 So it depends on what Trump meant here.

00:23:49.000 But by all means, call him out when he does something wrong.

00:23:52.000 But if you're asking me to trust the editors of the New York Times, who five minutes ago were apologizing for printing anti-Semitic cartoons of their own, who have spent years promulgating the myth that there is moral equivalence between the state of Israel and terrorists trying to murder Jews in the heart of the state of Israel, the same members of the media who are happy to host Peter Beinart, a spokesperson for Hamas, in essence, Yeah, I'm gonna take that with a... When I say a grain of salt, what I really mean is a giant vat of salt.

00:24:19.000 I mean a vat of salt the size of the Dead Sea.

00:24:22.000 That's how much salt I'm gonna take that with. 1.00

00:24:24.000 Because I think that you guys are completely full of crap. 1.00

00:24:27.000 Many things can be true at once. 1.00

00:24:28.000 Trump can say a bad thing, and also, you guys are utterly and completely and intensely full of garbage. 1.00

00:24:35.000 Full of excrement. 1.00

00:24:36.000 And we'll get to in a second the breakdown in the state of California, which was the original plan for today's show. 0.99

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00:25:53.000 Okay, meanwhile, The Democrats are they have to be thanking their lucky stars that President Trump is doing what President Trump does.

00:26:01.000 They have to be thanking their lucky stars because meanwhile, they are tearing themselves apart.

00:26:06.000 They don't know whether they ought to embrace a middle road or whether they ought to swing wildly to the left.

00:26:11.000 Their leading candidate is a gaffe machine.

00:26:14.000 And and their policies are failing.

00:26:16.000 I mean, California is ground zero for Democratic policies, and it is a giant, giant failure.

00:26:23.000 Hey, California, I've lived here my entire life.

00:26:25.000 I've been here my entire life except for three years when I was in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard Law.

00:26:31.000 I have watched this state deteriorate.

00:26:32.000 I've watched the living conditions in my area deteriorate.

00:26:35.000 Even though people are living in nicer apartments, they walk outside and the ground is strewn with garbage.

00:26:42.000 There are open needles on the street.

00:26:44.000 A few weeks ago, I walked out of my house, which is in a nice residential area, and I kid you not, right across the street, lying face down in the gutter like Edgar Allan Poe after a drinking binge, was some person, I felt terrible for them, some person who is obviously high, lying face down in the gutter, nothing being done about it.

00:27:01.000 This is the state of California now.

00:27:04.000 And the state of California has no answers because the real answers are free market solutions and enforcing the laws that are on the books with regard to criminal trespass.

00:27:11.000 That is the way that you enforce this.

00:27:12.000 Instead, nobody will do that.

00:27:14.000 So the idea is that developers do not have a right to build, but homeless people have the right to sleep on the streets.

00:27:20.000 I wonder why there is so little development and so many homeless people.

00:27:23.000 I cannot imagine.

00:27:25.000 Naturally, the state of California is blaming the only people who are not responsible, big business.

00:27:30.000 Barney Chakrabarty writing for Fox News.

00:27:32.000 So San Francisco homeless stats soar.

00:27:35.000 City blames big business.

00:27:36.000 Residents blame officials.

00:27:38.000 It has more billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the world, but it also has a homeless problem so severe that it rivals some third-world nations.

00:27:46.000 On any given day, you can see souped-up Lamborghinis and blinged-out trophy wives in one part of the city, and walk over a few blocks and see piles of human feces, puddles of urine, and vomit caked on the sidewalks.

00:27:55.000 The misery of homelessness, mental illness, and public drug addiction hits deep in San Francisco and has turned parts of a beautiful city into a public toilet.

00:28:03.000 As the problem grows, residents are finding themselves at a crossroads.

00:28:06.000 The compassion for those struggling is constantly being challenged by a fear for their own safety and quality of life.

00:28:11.000 It never had to get this bad, say critics, who are appalled that it's getting worse every day.

00:28:15.000 Well, this is where you mistake compassion for failure to enforce the law.

00:28:18.000 It is not compassionate to mentally ill people to leave them non-medicated on the street to live in their own filth. 1.00

00:28:24.000 I don't know what society believes that that is a form of compassionate, but apparently that's the government of California.

00:28:30.000 Amelia Cartwright told Fox News, I won't visit my son who lives out there again. 0.87

00:28:34.000 It's disgusting.

00:28:35.000 I went there a few months ago for the first time. 0.93

00:28:36.000 This guy who looked homeless and really beat up spit on me.

00:28:39.000 Can you imagine?

00:28:40.000 While it might be a shock to the system for some, residents say such interactions are common.

00:28:40.000 He spit on me.

00:28:45.000 Lately, the cases of citizens being harassed by mentally ill street people has taken a dangerous turn. 0.79

00:28:50.000 Last week, Austin Vincent, a homeless man, was caught on camera attacking a 26-year-old woman outside her condo complex.

00:28:56.000 As he threw Paniz Cosarian on the ground, he allegedly talked about saving her from robots and offered to kill another woman nearby so he could earn her trust.

00:29:04.000 Vincent was arrested and pled not guilty to a false imprisonment charge, two counts of battery, and armed robbery.

00:29:09.000 Instead, Superior Court Judge Christine Van Aken released Vincent over the objections of the DA's office.

00:29:16.000 Eventually, Vincent had to wear an ankle monitor, which means nothing.

00:29:18.000 And on Monday, he was arrested again for an alleged assault that occurred in February.

00:29:22.000 The police said he was armed with a knife, approached a woman and her friends as they waited for a ride.

00:29:26.000 Vincent's allegedly threatened to kill the woman and lunged at the group.

00:29:30.000 The city still manages to blow through hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars each year to supposedly address the crisis and blames everyone but themselves when the homeless count rises.

00:29:39.000 City officials in May recognized that the homeless problem jumped 17% from 2017.

00:29:46.000 And then that was the preliminary report.

00:29:48.000 The final report showed the street count increase would have been 30% if they had stuck to the same definition of homelessness as they had in the past.

00:29:57.000 This is insane.

00:29:57.000 And it's true in Los Angeles as well.

00:30:02.000 In Los Angeles, the homeless problem has become so terrible that pretty much every part of the city has been overrun with people who are living on the streets.

00:30:13.000 This is not a question of wealth redistribution.

00:30:15.000 This is a question of failures of policy.

00:30:18.000 If you're worried about affordable housing in major cities, one of the things you could do is allow developers to build.

00:30:22.000 But we can't do that.

00:30:23.000 Not in Seattle.

00:30:24.000 Not in L.A.

00:30:25.000 Not in San Francisco.

00:30:26.000 Nowhere.

00:30:28.000 How do we know this?

00:30:30.000 Listen to this story from USA Today.

00:30:34.000 $700,000 for an apartment?

00:30:35.000 The cost to solve the homeless crisis is soaring in L.A.

00:30:37.000 Chris Wood, you're writing.

00:30:39.000 As the city tries to cope with thousands of people living on the streets, a few homeless and low-income senior citizens will be luckier than most next year.

00:30:46.000 They will receive keys to one of 72 new apartments complete with a fitness center in the heart of trendy Koreatown built at a projected cost of $700,000 for each unit, according to the city controller's office.

00:30:58.000 Controller Ron Galperin said, this kind of cost is utterly unacceptable.

00:31:01.000 I believe we need a fundamental course correction.

00:31:04.000 Despite a booming national economy, homeless people have set up tents in makeshift encampments in major cities on the West Coast amid a housing shortage that has driven up rents to unaffordable levels.

00:31:13.000 In Los Angeles, the tents are spread out on sidewalks across the city, the homeless emboldened by a court ruling that allows them to live outside if no shelter space is available.

00:31:21.000 Making matters worse, many live in filthy, third-world conditions without basic necessities like toilets and sinks, making people susceptible to disease.

00:31:31.000 L.A.

00:31:31.000 voters passed a $1.2 billion bond in 2016.

00:31:34.000 We're going to spend a bunch of money on building 10,000 permanent housing units.

00:31:39.000 That would be enough to make a significant dent in the 28,000 people deemed living unsheltered in the most recent homeless count.

00:31:46.000 The result was a crash program to construct new apartments meant as permanent housing.

00:31:50.000 The median cost, $520,000.

00:31:53.000 Galperin says by taking a costly route, at the current rate, only somewhat more than 7,000 units will be constructed, far short of the 10,000, leaving thousands on the street.

00:32:02.000 This is not merely a problem of lack of housing.

00:32:05.000 This is also a problem with you shouldn't let people live on the street. 0.96

00:32:08.000 You do not have a right to live on the street in the United States.

00:32:11.000 You do not.

00:32:12.000 That is public land.

00:32:13.000 You don't have a right to live in the middle of the sidewalk, creating a public health hazard.

00:32:18.000 Rudy Giuliani knew this in New York, which is why New York is no longer a hellhole.

00:32:22.000 LA has turned into a hellhole.

00:32:24.000 It's the saddest thing.

00:32:25.000 And Sacramento too.

00:32:26.000 I was just in Sacramento for the weekend.

00:32:29.000 We drove past full blocks of people living in tents, full homeless cities.

00:32:34.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, a Sacramento salon owner claims Californian homelessness crisis is forcing her to relocate after 15 years because she has grown sick of multiple break-ins and cleaning up syringes, urine and feces from outside her premises every single day.

00:32:50.000 Of course, this tends to hit disproportionately poor areas the worst because richer areas have police departments that tend to actually move people if they can.

00:32:58.000 The poorer areas are the ones where everybody is locating on Skid Row.

00:33:03.000 The homeless problem in LA and San Francisco and Sacramento is a disaster area.

00:33:09.000 Gavin Newsom, the governor, is doing nothing. 1.00

00:33:11.000 We'll get to the stupid policies pursued by California Democrats in order to fight all of this, and they are indeed unbelievably stupid policies. 1.00

00:33:18.000 We'll get to that in just one second. 1.00

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00:35:12.000 So what are the policies that California is taking in order to fight back, militate against the homelessness crisis?

00:35:19.000 No.

00:35:21.000 Nothing, except making it harder for people to build units.

00:35:25.000 So it costs too much to live in these cities.

00:35:28.000 Supposedly, this is the cause of the homelessness problem.

00:35:30.000 Answer, it's not, okay?

00:35:32.000 The reason that there are a lot of homeless people on the street in LA and San Francisco is because they're nice places to live.

00:35:36.000 If you're gonna live on the street, you do it in LA because it ain't cold, Also, it's because LA and San Francisco have refused to prosecute people who are engaged in criminal activity.

00:35:48.000 It's also because LA, San Francisco, the state of California, they've declared a right for people to have their crap out on the street.

00:35:54.000 Police are not even allowed to move it.

00:35:56.000 I mean, there are a lot of reasons why we've not dealt with the mental illness problem, we've not dealt with the drug addiction problem, we've not dealt with any of those problems on a public health level.

00:36:04.000 That's really why the homelessness problem is a thing.

00:36:06.000 But, according to the left, the homelessness problem is because the rent is too damn high.

00:36:10.000 In the words of a famous man.

00:36:12.000 Well, if the rent is too damn high, you know what you need.

00:36:16.000 I'm no expert, but if something costs too much, you probably need more supply.

00:36:22.000 Just gonna put that out there.

00:36:22.000 You need more supply.

00:36:24.000 Naturally, this means the state of California is making it more difficult to build units.

00:36:28.000 Genius.

00:36:28.000 The California State Senate is now considering a measure that would limit rent hikes.

00:36:32.000 The Assembly earlier approved the bill that would cap rent hikes to 7% plus the rate of inflation up to a maximum of 10% per year.

00:36:39.000 The measure would apply to all rentals 10 years or older.

00:36:43.000 In the meantime, rent control advocates are backing a new proposition that would allow rent control for more properties, including apartments at least 15 years old or single-family homes if the landlord owns at least three rentals, which will completely destroy the real estate market in the state of California, which, by the way, is holding up a lot of people in their mortgages.

00:37:01.000 If you want a second real estate crisis, this is the way you do it.

00:37:04.000 You make sure that the real estate values in the state of California, which represent a disproportionate share of asset ownership in the state of California, start declining rapidly.

00:37:11.000 You wanna do that?

00:37:12.000 Very easy way to do it.

00:37:13.000 Make it impossible to rent those properties.

00:37:15.000 Make it so that if you own a second home, like some sort of rental home, that we're gonna be penalized for that, so the market drops out for that.

00:37:23.000 The prices start declining.

00:37:25.000 Banks stop giving loans as quickly.

00:37:27.000 People fall into foreclosure.

00:37:30.000 It'll be great.

00:37:32.000 Well done, everybody, because what we need is more people who fall into foreclosure.

00:37:35.000 That'll definitely stop the homelessness crisis.

00:37:38.000 Shockingly, California developers are now claiming, according to Curbed.com, that they are scared to build in the Bay Area.

00:37:46.000 There's a shock.

00:37:47.000 According to UCLA's Anderson School of Management and the law firm Allen Matkins, They released their survey of California developers.

00:37:54.000 They found that those at the stake in building housing are feeling gun-shy about the Bay Area.

00:37:58.000 You mean it's hard to build housing in the Bay Area and maybe that's contributing to the homelessness crisis?

00:38:03.000 No.

00:38:03.000 No!

00:38:06.000 They're indicating that construction activity is expected to slow down over the next 18 months.

00:38:11.000 The Bay Area is a big exception.

00:38:13.000 Developers think that in 2022, those areas, East Bay, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, will see worse economics than in 2019.

00:38:21.000 Production of multifamily homes, specifically, is expected to decline.

00:38:24.000 Those would be exactly the places that people need to rent.

00:38:28.000 Just genius.

00:38:30.000 Rent control talk is obviously impacting all of this.

00:38:33.000 So you know what would definitely help?

00:38:35.000 What would definitely help is if, let's say, the crime rates in California were also spiking.

00:38:39.000 That would be great.

00:38:41.000 So as it turns out, we can make that happen for you guys.

00:38:43.000 We can make the crime rates in California spike as well.

00:38:46.000 The California crime rates are indeed up.

00:38:49.000 They are up because of realignment.

00:38:51.000 They are up because there has been an attempt to take people out of prison early.

00:38:58.000 An analysis by the Marshall Project and the L.A.

00:39:00.000 Times found that while California's crime rates remain near historic lows, overall crime is up.

00:39:06.000 Theft has been rising after California reduced its criminal penalties, according to one report.

00:39:13.000 This is obvious.

00:39:15.000 It is obvious that crime has been a serious and rising problem.

00:39:22.000 In California, and a lot of the police departments, I mean, I have lots of friends on the force in LAPD, and a lot of the staff just get futzed by the political operators in a lot of these areas.

00:39:32.000 I mean, just a few days ago, we had on a police officer from Garden Grove, the chief of Garden Grove Police, talking about how realignment had spiked crime in the city, and how this was being hidden from the public.

00:39:42.000 So what's to blame?

00:39:43.000 Well, obviously what we need is more taxpayer dollars spent, right?

00:39:43.000 What's to blame?

00:39:46.000 What we need is more taxpayer dollars being used.

00:39:49.000 Only one problem.

00:39:50.000 California is basically maxed out.

00:39:52.000 California is raking in the bucks.

00:39:56.000 According to the Mercury News, Dan Walter is writing for CalMatters.

00:40:01.000 He says, last week, the State Department of Finance closed the books on 2018-2019 revenue and reported that the state had collected $145 billion, $1 billion more than it had anticipated just weeks earlier, and $2 billion plus more than the 2018-2019 budget had originally forecast.

00:40:18.000 That is a whopping 72% more than the state was collecting one decade ago, outpacing population growth and inflation.

00:40:25.000 The state has enough money to max out its reserve funds and provide several billion dollars in extra cash to offset schools' rising pension costs.

00:40:32.000 For pupils, spending on K-12 schools in California has risen by at least 50% in recent years.

00:40:39.000 Okay, so this is not a lack of tax revenue or spending.

00:40:42.000 The big problem in California is that we're just blowing it out in terms of the spending. 0.96

00:40:46.000 We're wasting it on a bunch of crap and then regulating business. 0.92

00:40:48.000 Is it any wonder that business is leaving California? 0.99

00:40:51.000 Our business is located in California.

00:40:52.000 We have conversations nearly daily about relocating our business out of California.

00:40:57.000 There is a reason for all of that.

00:41:00.000 So the reason that I point out all of this is that this is a failure of democratic policy.

00:41:06.000 It is a failure of left policy.

00:41:08.000 Republicans have no power in the state of California.

00:41:09.000 This is a single party state.

00:41:11.000 This is what it looks like when Democrats are in charge.

00:41:13.000 A problem forms because they refuse to solve a problem.

00:41:16.000 And in order to solve that problem, they create another problem.

00:41:18.000 And then they create a third problem on top of that.

00:41:20.000 The only solution is to tax you more, which creates more problems.

00:41:23.000 And then they're surprised when the problems get created.

00:41:26.000 And then the only solution is to blame business.

00:41:29.000 The only solution is businesses are the culprit, of course.

00:41:32.000 Businesses are evil.

00:41:34.000 Now here is where you would expect business to stand up and say, hold up a second.

00:41:37.000 Hold up.

00:41:37.000 This is not on us.

00:41:38.000 You guys have been taking all our money.

00:41:40.000 We pay people exactly what they are willing to take in the market.

00:41:45.000 This isn't on us.

00:41:45.000 We are the ones creating jobs.

00:41:48.000 Government does not create the economy.

00:41:50.000 Government provides the conditions under which an economy can flourish.

00:41:52.000 But government does not create the jobs.

00:41:54.000 Government does not create the businesses.

00:41:56.000 Government does not create any of those things.

00:41:58.000 Government, in fact, hampers those things.

00:42:00.000 Business should be defending itself.

00:42:01.000 But, because so much of business is now tied up in public relations, Because so much of business is now tied up in pandering to government for subsidies and tax breaks, because big business and big government are very often in each other's pocket, you're starting to see big business undermine its own case for existence.

00:42:22.000 So big business' case for existence used to be, we provide the jobs, we provide the products, the services, the goods, we provide all of those things, and we do so in a free market, consent-based way.

00:42:33.000 Now, big business, in an attempt to make cozy with big government, in an attempt to pander to the left politically, is undermining its own case.

00:42:42.000 There's an article in the New York Times called Shareholder Value is No Longer Everything Top CEOs Say.

00:42:48.000 Chief executives from the Business Roundtable, including the leaders of Apple and JPMorgan Chase, argued that companies must also invest in employees and deliver value to customers.

00:42:58.000 Oh wait, I missed it.

00:43:00.000 If companies don't invest in their employees, meaning they don't pay them, they're not going to have employees.

00:43:03.000 And also, if they don't deliver value to their customers, aren't they not going to have a business?

00:43:08.000 Businesses that don't deliver value to their customers go out of business.

00:43:10.000 So what the hell are we talking about here?

00:43:12.000 What we're talking about is these businesses being forced into a malice struggle session with left-leaning media and politicians to declare that, really, it's our fault.

00:43:21.000 Really, if we just worked harder, you were right all along.

00:43:24.000 There was a Scrooge McDuck money bin in the back room, and now, out of the goodness of our hearts, we're unlocking it.

00:43:30.000 Do they understand, these big business leaders, that the long-term and mid-term effect of what they are doing Is to allow governments to take the moral high ground against free markets.

00:43:39.000 This is why when people say that big business is capitalism, big business is free market.

00:43:44.000 No, a lot of big business looks for government rent seeking.

00:43:48.000 A lot of big business is looking for government protection.

00:43:50.000 A lot of big business is looking for the government to step in and regulate smaller businesses to protect them.

00:43:57.000 Breaking with decades of long-held corporate orthodoxy, the Business Roundtable issued a statement on the purpose of a corporation, arguing that companies should no longer advance only the interests of shareholders.

00:44:07.000 Instead, the group said, they must also invest in their employees, protect the environment, and deal fairly and ethically with their suppliers.

00:44:13.000 Again, I missed it.

00:44:14.000 Were businesses not doing this stuff before?

00:44:17.000 If you don't invest in your employees, you know what they do?

00:44:18.000 They leave.

00:44:19.000 You know how I know?

00:44:19.000 We have employees here.

00:44:21.000 Many of the people who are top-level employees in our company started off as low-level employees in this company.

00:44:27.000 I could name names, but I don't want to embarrass them.

00:44:29.000 But there is tremendous upward mobility at this company.

00:44:32.000 Why?

00:44:32.000 Because we don't want people to leave.

00:44:33.000 We want people to be happy here, despite having to work with me.

00:44:35.000 Okay, the fact is that if a business does not protect the environment, that business is going to be regulated into the ground.

00:44:45.000 And that if a business doesn't deal fairly and ethically with suppliers, why would the supplier deal fairly and ethically with the business?

00:44:51.000 Free markets are based on a root level of trust and reciprocity.

00:44:57.000 For big businesses to now come out and issue statements saying, oh yeah, heretofore, we were amoral Gordon Gekko types, but from now on, we're just like Warren Buffett, and we're gonna tow the company line.

00:45:06.000 We're gonna tow the Democratic Party line so that we're not regulated.

00:45:09.000 Yeah, just wait, okay?

00:45:10.000 The alligator, you can keep feeding it.

00:45:12.000 It may eat you last, but it'll still eat you.

00:45:15.000 A group says, while each of our individual companies serves its own corporate purpose, we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders.

00:45:22.000 We commit to deliver value to all of them for the future success of our companies, our communities, and our country.

00:45:28.000 The shift comes at a moment of increasing distress in corporate America as big companies face mounting global discontent over income inequality, harmful products, and poor working conditions.

00:45:38.000 Okay, so why aren't they pushing back on this?

00:45:42.000 I mean, this article from the New York Times explicitly says that these companies are caving to the propaganda of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who, by the way, are using iPhones to tweet out their various campaign stops while driving around in vehicles made by large corporations.

00:45:56.000 There was no mention at the roundtable of curbing executive compensation, by the way, nor should there be.

00:46:01.000 And the fact is that executive compensation is market-based.

00:46:04.000 And if you want to look at the dramatic rise in executive compensation, what you really should look at are the major corporations like Facebook and Google, where executives have made a bajillion dollars.

00:46:13.000 But you know who else did?

00:46:14.000 The janitors who started working at the company and who had stock options.

00:46:17.000 Guys.

00:46:19.000 They're responding to something in the zeitgeist, said Nancy Cohen, a historian at Harvard Business School.

00:46:23.000 They perceive that business as usual is no longer acceptable.

00:46:26.000 It's an open question whether any of these companies will change the way they do business.

00:46:31.000 Well, and here is the point, right?

00:46:32.000 These businesses think that by kowtowing to the language, by basically saying, oh, Thomas Piketty is right.

00:46:38.000 Income inequality is our fault.

00:46:39.000 We've got to do better.

00:46:40.000 That people will leave them alone.

00:46:41.000 Good luck with that.

00:46:43.000 Good luck with that.

00:46:43.000 There is no end to what people want once you start feeding them.

00:46:48.000 And once you start feeding the media, I don't mean people generally, I mean the media.

00:46:53.000 Once you start feeding the media and democratic politicians the propaganda they desire, there is no end to how much you're going to have to feed them more and more and more and more until they are taking out vital organs. 0.93

00:47:05.000 This is all ridiculous.

00:47:07.000 Okay, but it's ridiculous because we live in a heavily politicized world, and we refuse to acknowledge the vast good that big businesses actually do in American society. 0.93

00:47:15.000 We crap all over big businesses, despite the fact that they are employing the vast majority of people in the United States.

00:47:20.000 We crap on people who are high-income earners, despite the fact that the vast majority of those people have gone in and out of that high-income earning bracket over the course of their lives, and the fact that those are the people who are providing jobs to other people. 0.69

00:47:33.000 It is companies that invest, that are creating innovation that you like. 0.94

00:47:38.000 But I guess these companies must be brought to heel and, pathetically, the surrender culture is in full swing.

00:47:44.000 Do not surrender to the woke brigade. 0.84

00:47:47.000 Do not surrender to the SJWs.

00:47:49.000 When you surrender to them, you are only giving them the capacity to hang you.

00:47:54.000 You think by giving them rope that they will allow you a longer leash?

00:47:58.000 Incorrect.

00:47:58.000 They are tying the noose for you as we speak.

00:48:01.000 You give people power over your life and they are going to use it against you.

00:48:05.000 And it is truly amazing.

00:48:07.000 I mean, you can see there's never any end to this.

00:48:10.000 I'll give you an example.

00:48:11.000 Okay, so there's a guy named Stephen Ross, right?

00:48:13.000 He's the owner of the Miami Dolphins.

00:48:14.000 He was on the NFL Committee on Social Justice.

00:48:17.000 And that committee was dedicated toward pushing Anti-racism, anti-sexism, all of this.

00:48:24.000 There was no indicator that Stephen Ross had ever done anything wrong as a member of this committee, or that he had pushed against, quote-unquote, social justice for the NFL.

00:48:32.000 It turns out that he held a fundraiser for Trump, now he's been kicked off.

00:48:35.000 Long said the NFL social justice initiative recently got Ross to agree to remove himself from the group.

00:48:39.000 He shouldn't have done it.

00:48:41.000 Ross should have stuck around, he should have said, you need to force me out.

00:48:43.000 Just because I support Donald Trump does not mean I can't also support things that I think are good for the country, and where we may agree.

00:48:51.000 Once you start surrendering to people, the end is nigh for you.

00:48:57.000 You gotta fight back.

00:48:58.000 And too often in our society, people think the easiest way out is to apologize for doing stuff that they didn't do wrong in the first place. 0.98

00:49:05.000 Really, really dumb strategy, guys. 0.97

00:49:07.000 Dumb strategy by big business? 0.98

00:49:09.000 Because I promise you, Elizabeth Warren ain't gonna care about the nice words you are saying. 0.98

00:49:13.000 She's just out there dancing like a crazy person to Aretha Franklin and waiting for the moment when she can come after you. 0.99

00:49:18.000 That's all.

00:49:19.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:49:22.000 So, things that I like.

00:49:24.000 My wife and I have been watching The show Hannah.

00:49:27.000 It's based on the 2011 movie.

00:49:28.000 I've never seen the movie.

00:49:29.000 I've heard it's pretty good.

00:49:30.000 But the show itself is pretty good.

00:49:33.000 And just like the movie, apparently, it's got some sort of weird musical choices.

00:49:37.000 But it definitely is entertaining.

00:49:38.000 Joel Kinnaman is a true star.

00:49:40.000 The guy who plays the father in Hannah.

00:49:42.000 He was also in Altered Carbon, another show that I've recommended.

00:49:45.000 Both of these are very R-rated.

00:49:47.000 Let's talk about your father.

00:49:48.000 She's terrific.

00:49:48.000 When people talk about future Bonds, I've always thought Idris Elba would make an awesome Bond.

00:49:52.000 But if not Idris Elba, no, not a female James Bond, guys.

00:49:55.000 I know.

00:49:56.000 Open that can of worms again.

00:49:57.000 But Joel Kinnaman would be a good Bond.

00:49:59.000 He really would.

00:50:00.000 He's a real action star, and he can act.

00:50:02.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:50:04.000 Let's talk about your father.

00:50:07.000 Do you know why he kept you in the forest?

00:50:10.000 Did he tell you where he was going?

00:50:14.000 We are all worried about him.

00:50:20.000 You're safe now.

00:50:22.000 She's faking.

00:50:24.000 Richards, get out of there.

00:50:28.000 It's a very intense series, and it's very action-packed.

00:50:32.000 It is pretty good.

00:50:32.000 My wife and I are really enjoying it, so go check it out.

00:50:34.000 Hannah on Amazon Prime.

00:50:36.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:50:42.000 So I gotta say, I do not understand why candidates feel the need to be something they are not.

00:50:48.000 And not everyone has to be AOC dancing on rooftops.

00:50:51.000 Elizabeth Warren, you don't have to do this, lady.

00:50:53.000 I understand that you hijacked AOC's drinking a beer in your kitchen while doing an Instagram video.

00:50:58.000 But you don't have to dance, lady. 0.75

00:51:00.000 You really don't.

00:51:02.000 I knew Professor Warren very peripherally when I was at Harvard Law School.

00:51:05.000 She was always pretty straight-laced.

00:51:07.000 She was always a very intense person.

00:51:09.000 The first time I met her, she tried to rip into Rush Limbaugh. 1.00

00:51:11.000 I mean, that's who Elizabeth Warren is.

00:51:13.000 Her dancing to Aretha Franklin is one of the most awkward- She's not even Hillary Clinton 2.0 at this point.

00:51:17.000 She's Hillary Clinton 0.5. 1.00

00:51:18.000 Like, Hillary's an upgrade. 1.00

00:51:20.000 Like, Hillary just getting wild in Cedar Rapids is nothing com- Oh my god. 0.65

00:51:26.000 Wow.

00:51:27.000 If you're not watching this video, this is why you should subscribe.

00:51:29.000 Because Elizabeth Warren dancing is one of the worst things you will ever see. 1.00

00:51:34.000 It's Elaine from Seinfeld quality.

00:51:36.000 Full-on Elaine from Seinfeld quality.

00:51:38.000 Don't be what you're not, people.

00:51:39.000 Just be what you are. 1.00

00:51:41.000 Be a crazy, leftist, progressive, cynically manipulating the American people. 0.99

00:51:45.000 I'm old enough to remember when Elizabeth Warren was a moderate. 1.00

00:51:48.000 Yeah, that was funny.

00:51:49.000 Alright, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 21, 2019

King Of The Jews? | Ep. 844

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